Nuclear Drugs tech now PACS administrator at
Ascension Through Christi in Pittsburg

Ann Ogle, who started her profession with Ascension Through Christi in Pittsburg 18 years in the past as a Nuclear Drugs tech, is the newly named administrator of its Image Archiving and
Communication System, or PACS.

Ogle discovered her love for the medical field throughout highschool. “After I was 17, I had a examine carried out on my gallbladder and I simply keep in mind that technologist being so sort and caring to me, “ she
says. “At the moment, I had by no means heard of Nuclear Drugs.

Afterward, I did my analysis and that’s what led me to this line of labor!”

That line of labor includes performing checks for analysis and medical analysis.

Ogle’s new further position is to supply native help and steerage to the hospital staff in utilizing the image-archiving expertise.

“Ann is devoted to her profession and places affected person care as a high precedence,” says Travis Battagler, director of Coronary heart Middle and Imaging Operations. “She continues to search for methods to enhance
affected person satisfaction and on the similar time accommodate the wants of our medical employees.”

Ogle says her new position got here after taking a liking to the IT and imaging world of Radiology.

She enjoys the variability and challenges that come alongside together with her job and says it helps to maintain her sharp.

“Somebody as soon as advised me, ‘Act like your sufferers are your loved ones members. Every affected person is somebody’s dad, mother, grandpa, grandma…’ I do know I might need my members of the family to be taken care of,” says Ogle. “So that’s the manner I attempt to method each affected person.”

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About Ascension Through Christi
In Kansas, Ascension Through Christi operates seven hospitals and 75 different websites of care and employs practically 6,400
associates. Throughout the state, Ascension Through Christi offered practically $89 million in group benefit and care of
individuals dwelling in poverty in fiscal 12 months 2021. Serving Kansas for greater than 135 years, Ascension is a faith-based
healthcare group dedicated to delivering compassionate, personalised care to all, with particular consideration to
individuals dwelling in poverty and people most weak. Ascension is the main non-profit and Catholic well being system in
the U.S., working greater than 2,600 websites of care – together with 145 hospitals and greater than 40 senior dwelling amenities –
in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Go to www.ascension.org